BNPT Collaborates With Ministry Of Social Affairs To Distribute Social Assistance For Deradicalization Partners, Including Terrorism Survivors

Head of BNPT Komjen Pol Dr Boy Rafli Amar (Evarianus Supar/Antara)

JAKARTA - Head of the National Counter-Terrorism Agency (BNPT) Komjen Pol. Boy Rafli Amar synergizes with the Ministry of Social Affairs (Kemensos) to distribute social assistance (bansos) for deradicalization partners and terrorism survivors. Our relationship with them is getting better," said Boy Rafli in his statement in Jakarta, Thursday. He said the distribution of social assistance was a form of solidarity in easing the economic burden and a form of state presence in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. The police said it was important so that the public would not be influenced by the hate propaganda against the state spread by terrorists.

Meanwhile, the Director of Social Rehabilitation for the Socially Impaired and Victims of Trafficking in Persons of the Ministry of Social Affairs, Waskito Budi, who was also present at the discussion on the plan for the distribution of social assistance, fully supports the social assistance program for BNPT partners. Meanwhile, the mechanism for distributing social assistance will be discussed further between BNPT, the Ministry of Social Affairs, together with regional facilitators in five synergistic locus provinces, namely Central Sulawesi, West Nusa Tenggara, East Java, Central Java, and West Java. independence of deradicalization partners and terrorism survivors. "We build trust building, and then build peace building, it will automatically create independence," said Waskito.